NAME
HTML::StripTags - Strip HTML or XML tags from a string with Perl like
PHP's strip_tags() does
SYNOPSIS
use HTML::StripTags qw(strip_tags);
$string = 'Hallo beautifulworld!';
$allowed_tags = '';
print strip_tags( $string, $allowed_tags );
DESCRIPTION
HTML::StripTags provides the function strip_tags() that can strip all
HTML or XML tags from a string except the given allowed tags. This is a
Perl port of the PHP function strip_tags() based on PHP 5.3.3.
SECURITY NOTE
Please note: As per PHP's
strip_tags() is a very basic and unsafe method, so it's strongly
recommended not to use it for cleaning up user input! As HTML::StripTags
uses the same state machine, the same applies to this module.
METHODS
strip_tags()
A simple little state-machine to strip out html and php tags
State 0 is the output state, state 1 means we are inside a normal html
tag, state 2 means we are inside a php tag, state 3 means we are inside
a "